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Cruising California Coast in 2025 Hyundai Santa Cruz
November 23, 2024

White space is hard to find in the U.S. car market, but Hyundai found a niche in 2021 when it introduced the Santa Cruz compact pickup truck. Now, four years down the road, the Santa Cruz remains a

Acura ZDX Type S Versus Maine: An Unfair Fight?
November 16, 2024

The Acura ZDX Type S is the brands most powerful SUV, offering a performance-tuned dual-motor AWD powertrain with an estimated 500 horsepower. But how will it contend with late fall in the great stat

How Will Trump Change the Auto Industry?
November 09, 2024

The elephant in the room this week is the landslide election of Donald J. Trump and what it means to the auto industry and the American car buyer. From tariffs to regulation changes to tax breaks, thi

Special Road Test: 1,000 Miles in 2025 Honda Odyssey Elite
November 02, 2024

Driving from Dallas to Oxford, Mississippi, and back over the course of a three-day weekend sounds like a daunting proposition for a lot of people. After all, Dallas is 530 miles from Oxford, so the j

2025 Toyota Camry XSE: 600+ Miles of Range in a Sedan You’ll Love
October 26, 2024

The 2025 Toyota Camry Hybrid is all that flash, but after testing it this week, we think consumers will really respond to its combination of versatility, fun-to-drive, and incredible fuel economy. The

2025 Ram 1500 Goes Straight (Six)
October 19, 2024

After years featuring the Hemi V8, the 2025 Ram 1500 now offers the new turbocharged 3.0-liter Hurricane straight-six engines, and Co-Host Chris Teague gives the heavily massaged full-sized pickup a t

Mazda MX-5 Miata, Subaru WRX TR Keynote Joy of Driving Week
October 12, 2024

This week America on the Road proves yet again that there is more to driving than just getting from Point A to Point B in a thoroughly rational but also thoroughly uninvolving crossover SUV. We experi

All-New 2025 Ford Expedition: Is It the Ultimate Family Hauler?
October 05, 2024

Ford Motor Company doesnt see the all-new 2025 Ford Expedition as just another big SUV. It has a larger purpose in mind. Expedition Brand Manager Luis Perez told AOTR Host Jack Nerad that Ford wants

Mustang Convertible + Autumn in Maine: The Perfect Automotive Cocktail
September 28, 2024

While the other domestic manufacturers are dropping their sporty cars as if they were redhot hunks of iron just pulled from a fireplace, Ford is doubling down on its iconic Mustang, and were happy ab

2025 Ford Mustang GTD: 815-horsepower, 202 MPH Top Speed; Are We Nearing the End of Days?
September 21, 2024

This week's lead news story is the just-announced 2025 Ford Mustang GTD that Ford Motor Company says is the pinnacle of Mustang engineering. As we discuss in this weeks episode, its hard to argue th